Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hardship"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hardship \Hard"ship\, n.
That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury,
injustice, etc. --Swift.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hardship
n 1: a state of misfortune or affliction: "debt-ridden farmers
struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: {adversity}]
2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
[syn: {asperity}, {grimness}, {rigor}, {rigour}, {severity},
{rigorousness}]
3: something that causes or entails suffering: "I cannot
thinking it a hardship that more more indulgence is
allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many
hardships of frontier life"
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